Classicly Books
The Irish Nuns at Ypres
Dame M. ColumbanThe following narrative was originally intended, as a record of the events it relates, for the use of the Community only. But, shortly after the arrival of the Mother Prioress in England, the manuscri..
The Native Races of East Africa
Wilfrid D. HamblyA few years ago two dwarfs or Pygmies from the trackless forests of Uganda were bold enough to allow themselves to be brought to London, where they were exhibited and photographed. Unfortunately these..
Apes and Monkeys: Their Life and Language
R. L. GarnerThe author frankly confesses to his own belief in the psychic unity of all animate nature. Believing in a common source of life, a common law of living, and a common destiny for all creatures, he feel..
Letters on the Moral and Religious State of South America
D.D. James ThomsonI am now about to return to that quarter of the world, and trust that the same gracious hand which protected me and guided me in my former wanderings there, will still conduct me, and will enable me t..
Object, Matrimony
B. M. BowerEllis and me used to make a sneak down to the old bunk-house once in awhile, and make a fire in the old stove, and snatch a little comfort. But it always hurt Shooting-star’s feelings; and besides, he..
Rainbow Gold
Sara TeasdaleA child’s enjoyment, as I said above, is what I have striven for in this collection. We who have seen how poetry has come to our rescue with its delight, its healing, and its new courage in times of s..
The Art of Home Furnishing and Decoration
Frank Alvah ParsonsMan is exactly what he lives in, for environment is the strongest possible factor in man’s development. One may be so long among loud noises, bad odors, inharmonious colors and wrong arrangements of t..
The Conquest
H. Bedford-JonesSeven of those years were the happiest of all my life, perhaps. Ruth and I dwelt quiet at home, and between whiles of the work my mother taught us much that we had never known else. She was of good fa..